Happy Belated Labour Day!

And Karrissa Nicole's Birthday!!!

The BBQ yesterday was great! English spoken everywhere!! Woo Hoo!

I got to hold two babies, I played nurse to a sick little 10 yr. old and made some new friends. Perfect party, huh (except for the sick little guy who felt soooo much better after some Tylenol)?

Dominga made us some delicious meatballs and rice for dinner but it was a rag tag meal as we were all pretty much full from the BBQ so we just helped ourselves as the hunger hit us. We watched some more movies and wished for English-speaking TV. We're holding off until we get our TVs.

I slept very poorly last night for no known reason so I flopped back into bed after my family members went on their merry way this morning. At 9:30 I dragged myself into the shower so I could make my 10:30 pedicure appointment...rough, I know.

When my toes were pretty, I jumped in a taxi to the embassy to meet John for lunch. The embassy doc sat with us, he's new too and a total sweetheart. Retired from the Navy, he and his wife have been traveling the world, working at different embassies. We were joined not long after by the Human Resource boss, hopefully the person who will be hiring me soon. No word yet on the Spanish test.

After lunch I went to John's office and with some help from Randy (OPSCO - don't even know what that stands for but he is Mr. Super Assistant in the Attache Office) we placed an order with the State Dept. to complete the furnishings in this house plus the delivery of the stuff from the Defense Attache house that we need here. DATT house stuff hopefully will be here by the end of the week. As is our Express Shipment, supposedly.

Now I'm back home, Jake's doing homework, the girls are at soccer practice. The house is quiet and clean! Sigh. :-)